It seems like the b.net crowd lately has turned more and more into something I would expect from a troll forum like /b/. Even playing a more casual map yesterday, someone on our team left, after spending all their minerals (they got disconnected), so me and my teammate were at a disadvantage. So we were losing slightly, didn't talk trash, but then the kid on the other team just starts spouting off profanity at pretty much a constant rate the entire rest of the game until I finally blocked communication on him.
It seems like this type of behavior has become more and more common lately. It's becoming tiring to play just because of all the smack-talk, even casual custom maps. Also the griefers seem to be running rampant, for example a map called "star battle" there was a guy named FASI that just kept pasting the same line of text, ALL IN CAPS, throughout the entire game and griefing people on his team by nuking other ships (this was a month or two ago that I ran into him before blocking him).
It's not that I am new to the internet and griefing, it's more that it seems to have an increasing frequency of occurrence than it used to from what I remember from even just a few months ago.